WHAT IS GOLD RATE TODAY - GOLD AS A MINERAL
What Is Gold Rate Today
- prize indemnity? In everyday terms, Prize Indemnity is prize coverage without the prize risk. It's that simple.
- Is simply the glossary of terms and acronyms, you can find them below in alphabetic order. Fundamental concepts and acronyms may also have an associated Blog post, if that is the case the acronym or term will be hyper-linked to the respective post.
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- This present day
- The present period of time
- the present time or age; "the world of today"; "today we have computers"
- nowadays: in these times; "it is solely by their language that the upper classes nowadays are distinguished"- Nancy Mitford; "we now rarely see horse-drawn vehicles on city streets"; "today almost every home has television"
- on this day as distinct from yesterday or tomorrow; "I can't meet with you today"
- An alloy of this
- A deep lustrous yellow or yellow-brown color
- amber: a deep yellow color; "an amber light illuminated the room"; "he admired the gold of her hair"
- A yellow precious metal, the chemical element of atomic number 79, valued esp. for use in jewelry and decoration, and to guarantee the value of currencies
- coins made of gold
- made from or covered with gold; "gold coins"; "the gold dome of the Capitol"; "the golden calf"; "gilded icons"
- Assign a standard or value to (something) according to a particular scale
- amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis; "a 10-minute phone call at that rate would cost $5"
- Assign a standard, optimal, or limiting rating to (a piece of equipment)
- a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit; "they traveled at a rate of 55 miles per hour"; "the rate of change was faster than expected"
- Assess the value of (a property) for the purpose of levying a local tax
- assign a rank or rating to; "how would you rank these students?"; "The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide"
046: life in a gold plaque
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writing this in my phone tonight. i am lying in bed because i have a migraine that is making me squint at the brightness of my cellphone screen. i couldn't bear to break the routine of writing about a photo every day, so here it is. at least i can close my eyes while typing this.
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well, turns out that i did fall asleep while typing it. a momentary lapse in wakefulness was something i couldn't ignore because the pain was something i didn't want to deal with all night.
so today is the 16th and i have officially defied the few rules i set for myself. perhaps i didn't take into account circumstances such as that of last night (elaborated in today's photo).
yesterday we spent the afternoon and dinner at David Lloyd in Raynes Park, a "health and racquet club". relatives had brought us in for some kind of trial, liana and i laughed at the guest's questionnaire when it asked us to rate our fitness low, moderate, or high. we ended up ticking moderate.
not much sparked me to take a photo throughout the afternoon, even though we had seen tennis player boris becker at the front counter (to which my dad became like a little schoolboy thrilled at seeing plastic hero figurines all life-size and real) and i had killed 5 miles in an hour on the treadmill.
only on the way out did i spot this and was delighted. i always love it when there are quotations on plaques like this. and i love how the plaque is on something that defined him in some way. i don't know this man, but with this green umpire chair and gold plaque my mind already forms an image of an old, friendly man who simply loved his simple job on the courts. "if in doubt, call it in," i can almost hear him say in a light, retrospective conversation with players whose game he had just umpired, with towels wiped over foreheads plastered with stray strands of hair, flushed faces, wide grins and bottles of gatorade, friendly slaps on the back and masculine laughter.
i wonder, to what would a gold plaque be stuck to if it had my name on it?
deep time
Do you ever stop to think how amazing it is that a burning gas and plasma ball emits heat and light 93 million miles from Earth, sediments and magma turn into rock, and continent-sized tectonic plates move around causing uplift at rates of centimeters per year for millions of years until mountains are formed.
Then mountains erode. Rocks become soil. Plant and animal life clings tenaciously generation after generation.
The majestic dance unfolds and we're able to observe, capture it through our lenses, store it as quantum electrical states in the crystalline structure of silicon chips, move the numerical grid of numbers from the camera to the computer with little bits of electricity, save it on magnetized particles deposited on storage media spinning thousands of times per second in our computers, then manipulate, contemplate, and finally transmit the image out into the whole flickr world.
It's pretty amazing! I think about that kind of stuff all the time. I think too much.
But what I'm trying to get at here is the idea of what geologists call "deep time". Not yesterday, today, and tomorrow, or even this generation, the two preceding, and the two following (with heavy emphasis on this one), but MILLIONS of years. The kind of time it took for this mountain to form. In this scale of time, the human lifetime is too inhibiting to even consider.
There are many discussions of this kind of geological time scale - "deep time", but one of the best is John McPhee's "Basin and Range". Here's a passage from the book (p. 129 in my copy):
"If you free yourself from the conventional reaction to a quantity like a million years, you free yourself a bit from the boundaries of human time. And then in a way you do not live at all, but in another way you live forever."
There is an intersection of science and spirituality in this mode of thought.
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